Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context

by Carol L. Meyers

Book Overview

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite women because urban elite males wrote the vast majority of the scriptural texts. Also, the stories of women in the Bible concern exceptional individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199734623
• ISBN13: 9780199734627
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"